Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Melbourne’s RMIT University will host this year’s NonfictionNow conference in November as a result of a partnership between the university’s school of media and communications and the nonfiction writing program...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Express Media and Australian Poetry have announced a partnership to publish a first collection of poetry by one Victorian poet under the age of 25. The partnership is a continuation...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The fifth annual conference of the Australian Association for Literature, ‘Literature and Censorship’, takes place in Canberra from today until Friday (11 to 13 July). The conference is hosted by...

Tuesday, 10 July 2012
The Book Grocer has opened a new store in Melbourne’s CBD. The store is located at 455 Bourke Street.

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The program for the 2012 Mildura Writers’ festival has been announced. This year’s festival will run from 19-22 July and continues the festival’s established tradition of events which showcase the...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced a number of changes to its board following this year’s festival in May. Annette Shun Wah, Peter FitzSimons and Tim Peach have finished...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Stuart Harrison has won the 2012 National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for his book Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House (Thames and...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In the lead up to its inaugural Independent Publishers’ Conference in November, the Small Press Network (SPUNC) is seeking presentations for the academic day of the conference on the topic of...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The New Zealand Government’s Trade and Enterprise department has released a new guide to educational book publishing in overseas markets. The guide provides information about the Canadian, Chinese, German, UK...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Screen Australia has announced funding for a number of apps, several of which are based on books. Bottersnikes and Gumbles ‘brings to life the hilarious animated stories about the evil...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The inaugural Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (SHWF) will be held in Bowral, NSW on 21-22 July. Authors speaking at the festival include Frank Moorhouse, Kirsten Tranter, Kate Forsyth, Sue Woolfe,...

Monday, 2 July 2012
The finalists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. This year 49 books are competing for awards...

Monday, 2 July 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has established a new grant for mid-career writers. Applications are now open for the inaugural grant, which is worth NZ$6000 (A$4700) and designed...

Friday, 29 June 2012
The program for the inaugural Bendigo Writers Festival, to be held between 10 and 12 August, has been announced. Among the writers participating in the festival are Alex Miller, Alexis...

Friday, 29 June 2012
The South Australian Writers’ Centre has announced a new writer-in-residence program for emerging writers. Applications are now open for the program, with two places to be offered this year. The...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Australian Society of Authors has announced that Dimitra Harvey has been awarded the 2012 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, entitling the author to a one-week residency at Varuna, the...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced that Rubert Myer will replace James Strong as chair of the Australia Council, with Robyn Archer appointed deputy chair. Myer is a former Chairman...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Melbourne Prize for Literature has removed the age limit from its Best Writing Award for 2012. In past years an age limit of 40 years and under applied for...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Wheeler Centre has announced the first intake of writers for this year’s Hot Desk Fellowships, supported by the Readings Foundation. Among the first intake are Luke Ryan, Mel Campbell,...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The 2012 recipients of the State Library of Victoria creative fellowships have been announced. Among the recipients selected for funding are several with book-related projects. (Elizabeth) Jo Gilbert will work...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The full program of this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival has been released. Local authors attending the event include Michael Kirby, Thomas Keneally, Anna Rose, Jessica Watson, Gail Jones, Charlotte...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced that Miles Franklin winner Anna Funder will appear as a headline author at this year’s festival. ‘I am not surprised the Miles...

Monday, 25 June 2012
The finalists for this year's Valerie Parv Award, presented by the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced. This year's finalists are: Madeline Ash, Bridget...

Friday, 22 June 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the recipients of its fourth and fifth Patron’s Fellowships. Jennifer Lindsay is the recipient of the ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship ‘for a substantial...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Andy Griffiths, Sulari Gentill, B Michael Radburn, Karly Lane and Tania McCartney will be among the guests at the inaugural Griffith Readers’ Festival in September. The festival, which will be...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Two new prizes will be presented as part of this year’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards for crime writing. Melbourne’s Athenaeum Library will present a new prize for a short story featuring...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
ReadCloud has announced that it has signed with Random House, and more than 10,000 Random House ebooks will soon be available through ReadCloud-powered ebookstores. ReadCloud also recently announced that it...